So AC, now that you've been dragged kicking and screaming to the realisation that there was a peace offer, can we get back to my main point that you and Paul tried so hard to avoid....namely that you can't simultaneously know that there was a peace offer that Trump rejected while maintaining that Trump is desperately trying to get out of the war.

I know that you won't accept this doublethink, but it's still worthwhile pointing it out.

What would also be worthwhile pointing out is that, until I dragged you kicking and screaming to the facts of the peace offer, your 'sources' kept it from you ie they, like you, were prepared to ignore facts in order to maintain a fiction.

The Iranian economy is in disarray....
"Government revenue has dried up just as the needs of its population are rising.

The war has thrown around one million people out of work directly and another million indirectly, according to early estimates cited by Gholamhossein Mohammadi, an official at Iran’s Labor and Social-Affairs ministry. That is a significant portion of the roughly 25 million people who are normally employed in Iran.

The cost of living has soared, with the annual inflation rate reaching 67 percent in the month through mid-April from the same period a year earlier, according to Iran’s central bank. The subsidized price of red meat, which was mostly imported through sea routes, has gone up to the equivalent of around $3.60 a pound, beyond the reach of most in a country where the minimum wage is around $130 a month.

“Living is not affordable anymore,” said Mahdi Ghodsi of the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies. “Iran is at its weakest point.”

Businesses across the country — from manufacturers to retailers — are closing, residents said. The lack of steel and other raw materials is hampering production in various industries. Electronic goods, which are mostly imported, are in short supply and expensive."

Additionally, the US is now systematically freezing and seizing cryptocurrency accounts held off-shore by the IRGC and their leaders as well as taking possession of villas held in France and Britain by Iranian mullahs. "Because nothing screams ‘Death to the Great Satan!’ quite like yelling it from the balcony of your six-bedroom chateau in Cannes while sipping mimosas and checking your crypto wallet."

"The Iranian economy is in disarray....
'Government revenue has dried up just as the needs of its population are rising.

The war has thrown around one million people out of work directly and another million indirectly, according to early estimates cited by Gholamhossein Mohammadi, an official at Iran’s Labor and Social-Affairs ministry."

Tell me mhaze what went through you head as you thought and wrote that?
Do you feel a sense of victory for an outcome that pleases you.

Do you think they will just surrender?
Do you think Khomeini will be going hungry?
The reason so many are out of work is because America and Israel weren't attacking military targets, they were attacking industries.

You want to tell me you support the U.S. engineering a currency collapse, support western farsi speaking intelligence assets (Mossad, CIA) co-opting protests to start shooting and beheading police, killing protesters you can later blame on the 'evil regime', setting fire to government buildings, attack schools, hospitals, universities, assassinate majority of the leadership, including more moderate leaders, to a country of 90 million people who are only a few weeks away from getting 'the bomb', and control the Strait of Hormuz.

And why?

Because Israel via Netanyahu, has a plan with the West to attack and overthrow all nations supporting the Palestinians, and providing a measure of pushback to Israels genocide.

At the core of this entire mess is an 'end's justifies the means' attitude by the deranged psychotic terrorist nation Israel, hell bent on ethnic cleaning for land theft.

That's why Hezbollah and Hamas are named terrorists by western vassal-state leaders, because they defend the Palestinians.

Just the same as Defense for Children International Palestine was labelled a terrorist organisation, because it exposed systemic culture of rape and abuse of Palestinians held hostage without charge or due process.

If you take pride, pleasure or accomplishement in others suffering, than this shows who you really are.

Following the German Chancellor's crack that the U.S was being humiliated by Iran, President Trump has decided to remove 5,000 U.S troops from Germany. The German is now bleating that they need the troops. Well, tough. Germany, Europe and other fair weather allies have been glad of U.S support, and they and NATO have been bludging off the U.S ever since WW11. Now, when America wants a little bit of help, the bludgers, including Australia, might find out that what Trump says about them, and what he will do to the ingrates, is not all bluff.

What would happen if Iran siad to themselves we're sick of playing defense, and instead went on the offense?

What would happen if Mojtaba Khomeini gave the order to rescind the fatwa and immediately build nukes, change the equation to mutually assured destruction.

What would happen if they went on the offense?
Said you want to destroy our nation, we can play that game.
You've tried to destroy our nation, attacked us economically and killed our leaders including the Ayatollah.

They've already syopped traffic in the Persion Gulf
What happens if they also close Bab el Mandeb

And what happens if they 'somehow' put a submarine to sea and 'somehow' started blowing up the U.S. offshore drilling platforms in the Gulf of Mexico which produced three quarters of a million barrels last year.

Is the U.S. 40 trillion debt and their economy, centered around oil, not their Achilles heel?

Does the U.S. economy and political situation detonate?

I wonder how much damage Iran could do to that blockade, if they really tried.
Get one ship to peel off chasing a oil tanker and then hit it with 1000 drones. How hard is it to hit the radar and take Aegis down.

This is part of why there's a race with AI, so they can simulate potential outcomes.

So AC now agrees that the Iranian economy is in disarray and that its due to the efforts of the US and Israel. But in the next breathe he'll assert that the US is losing the war and Iran is revelling at its victory. Go figure.

Then, hilariously, AC enters Fantasyland to try to re-write the facts of the war ...."And what happens if they 'somehow' put a submarine to sea and 'somehow' started blowing up the U.S. offshore drilling platforms in the Gulf of Mexico which produced three quarters of a million barrels last year."

I have to admit that my greatest concern is that the Iranians enter into an alliance with the Klingons to attack the Federation.